Biographical
Langston Hughes was born in Joplin Missouri on February 1, 1902. His parent divorced and he was raised by his grandmother until he was thirteen years old. His father moved to mexico and his mother remarried and moved to Cleavland Ohio.
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He attented Colombia University for about 2 years. In 1926, Langston finished schooling at Lincoln University. After Colombia University he had an aray of jobs consisting of a cook, launderer, and busboy, later traveling to Africa and Europe working as a seaman.
Paul Lawrence Dunbar, Carl Sandburg, and Walt Whitman were his primary influences, is known for his insightful, colorful portrayals of black life in America from the twenties through the sixties.
His work never related to just his experience but the whole black community as one. rythmycal language
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My old man's a white old man
And my old mother's black.
If I ever cursed my white old man
I take my curses back.
If I ever cursed my black old mother
And wished she were in hell,
You say I O.K.ed
LONG DISTANCE?
O.K.ed it when?
My goodness, Central
That was //then//!
I'm mad and disgusted
With that Negro now.
I don't pay no REVERSED
CHARGES nohow.
You say, I will pay it--
Else you'll take out my phone?
You better let
My phone alone.
I didn't ask him
To telephone me.
Roscoe knows darn well
LONG DISTANCE
Ain't free.
If I ever catch him,
Lawd, have pity!
Calling me up
From Kansas City.
Just to say he loves me!
I knowed that was so.
Why didn't he tell me some'n
I don't know?
For instance, what can
Them other girls do
That Alberta K. Johnson
Can't do--//and more, too//?
What's that, Central?
You say you don't care
Nothing about my
Private affair?
Well, even less about your
PHONE BILL, does I care!
Un-humm-m! . . . Yes!
You say I gave my O.K.?
Well, that O.K. you may keep--
But I //sure// ain't gonna pay!
MY PEOPLE
The night is beautiful,
So the faces of my people.
The stars are beautiful,
So the eyes of my people.
Beautiful, also, is the sun .
Beautiful, also, are the souls of my people.
The meaning behind My People is that african americans are equal to the white man's view of himself. Through that time of predjudice Langston Hughes writes about the hardships of his people with little of his own expierience.
- D.O.B.Feb. 1/ 1902 D.O.D. May 22/1967
BiographicalLangston Hughes was born in Joplin Missouri on February 1, 1902. His parent divorced and he was raised by his grandmother until he was thirteen years old. His father moved to mexico and his mother remarried and moved to Cleavland Ohio.
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My old man's a white old man
And my old mother's black.
If I ever cursed my white old man
I take my curses back.
If I ever cursed my black old mother
And wished she were in hell,
I'm sorry for that evil wish
and now i wish her well
My old man died in a fine big house.
My Ma died in a shack.
I wonder where i'm going to die,
Being neither white nor black?
MADAM AND THE PHONE BILL
MY PEOPLE
The night is beautiful,
So the faces of my people.
The stars are beautiful,
So the eyes of my people.
Beautiful, also, is the sun .
Beautiful, also, are the souls of my people.
The meaning behind My People is that african americans are equal to the white man's view of himself. Through that time of predjudice Langston Hughes writes about the hardships of his people with little of his own expierience.